Author: Philippe Willems

Philippe Willems, Orineo, will take you on a journey from coffee grounds & more, to desktops & more on June 21st at the Biobased Coatings Conference Europe 2018, Antwerp, Belgium.
Read more about the event at: Biobased Coatings Conference 2018
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Philippe Willems, Orineo, will tell you more about new biomaterials from coffee residues, fruit subproducts and its bagasses on June 14th at the Waste Biorefinery International Technical Conference in Valencia, Spain.
Read more about the event at: Waste Biorefinery Conference
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Kitchen and bathroom tablets in Ghent area covered with Cranberry Touch of Nature®. Seamless connection with the wooden frame and perfect match with the wall tiles; a changing aesthetic experience depending on light, sun and season!
For more pictures: see our recent projects page!
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Our Touch of Nature material was on display at the recent Amsterdam Coffee Festival (10-12 March 2017). The illy booth had a real touch of nature, with the countertop and meeting table covered with Touch of Nature material, based on waste coffee, illy coffee, of course!
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Orineo will share a booth with Caracterr BV at the next Architect@Work in Rotterdam (14-15 September 2016). Caracterr is our partner in the flooring business and proposes a range of innovative seamless floors. At Architect@Work, a special attention will be given to the Touch of Nature material both for flooring, furniture and interior design applications.
Please visit us at booth 11.
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Orineo Voted ‘Bio-based Material of the Year 2016’ By Industry Peers
Cologne, 7 April 2016
Belgian SME Orineo won the prestigious Bio-based Material of the Year Award for its bio-based Touch of Nature® materials at the 9th International Conference on Bio-based Materials in Cologne, Germany, organised by the Nova-institut.
Selected by over 200 industry experts, Touch of Nature® was recognised for its innovative character and functional validity. The material has already been used successfully in a range of design projects where environmental credentials were valued, for example as a bio-based countertop at the OR Coffee shop in Ghent, Belgium.
“At Orineo, we are proud that Touch of Nature® has been recognised by our peers as the most exciting new material in the bio-based industry. This Award adds weight to our ever-growing list of references in the field of environmentally-sensitive design and sustainable architecture,” said Philippe Willems, Founder and Director of Orineo.
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After being nominated (news of 16th of March), we are now very proud to announce that our
Touch of Nature® material has been selected by 200 bio-economy experts as the award winning material for 2016. During the 9th International Conference on Bio-Based Materials organized by Nova Institut, our peers massively recognized the innovative character and functional validity of Touch of Nature® materials.
Touch of Nature® is now in the process of becoming a reference bio-based material for flooring, tabletop, countertop and interior design panels.
Picture by courtesy of Nova-Institut
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The new espresso bar opened by OR Coffee at the Dok Noord site in Ghent, Belgium has a unique countertop made with their own coffee grounds. Orineo used its Touch of Nature material filled with coffee grounds to produce this countertop, with unique soft and warm touch obtained by the hand-finished sanding and polishing.
The whole setting consist of vertical panels joined seamlessly to a first countertop and a stand alone island countertop....

Touch of Nature by Orineo has been nominated for the Biomaterial of the Year 2016 award. The awards will be granted during the 9th International Conference on Bio-based Materials, 5-6 April 2016 in Cologne, Germany. For more information, please visit http://biowerkstoff-kongress.de...